Friday, December 17, 2010

This individual witnessed the will of Barbara Haase, drawn up in Hancock County, Illinois in the early 1900s. He was a neighbor of Haase's and a cooper in his early thirties when he witnessed the will.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

This passport applicant was born in Illinois in 1892 and was headed to Europe as a Red Cross nurse in 1918. My grandfather's first cousin, I never knew she was in Europe until I discovered this application.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

This gentleman was born in 1891 and had no telephone number listed on his registration, but where they lived was pretty rural in Brown County, Illinois. I'm not certain the title of this post is helpful, but I'm running out of witty titles and this man is my Aunt Altje's husband.